History
The “Stars and Stripes”, the official National symbol of the United States of America was authorized by congress on that Saturday of June 14, 1777 in the fifth item of the days agenda. The entry in the journal of the Continental Congress 1774-1789 Vol. Vlll 1777 reads “Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be Thirteen stripes alternate red and white: that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”
In Waubeka, Wisconsin, in 1885
Bernard John Cigrand a nineteen
year old school teacher in a one room school placed a 10” 38 star flag
in an inkwell and had his students write essays on what the flag meant
to them. He called June 14th the flag’s birthday. Stony Hill School is
now a historical site. From that day on
Bernard J. Cigrand dedicated
himself to inspire not only his students but also all Americans in the
real meaning and majesty of our flag.
